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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Five Questions Companies Should Ask Before Making an Innovation-Driven Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. By answering these five questions: 1. Have we really seen the future or are we just rolling the dice? Just 13 months after buying Palm for $1.2

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Understanding The Power Of Our Words

Tanveer Naseer

But what struck me the most about his talk was this comment he made about how our words can influence those around us: “Words when said and articulated in the right way can change someone’s mind. They can alter someone’s belief.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2Ă—2 matrix below.